Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.
Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.
Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.
Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down. Because when you're wearing prosthetic makeup, of course, you have to really move your face a lot more to convey things through the makeup.
If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.
You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.
As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
You shape your own destiny.
Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse.
You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it's always about living in the moment and being in the moment... I refuse to let those numbers define me, and I just try to face each day positively.
You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.
A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.
Everyone, whether you are married or have a boyfriend or girlfriend, there's always someone who has a hold of your heart. You learn to let it go, but there's always a place in your heart. For me, it was someone I went to college with and we had an amazing bond, but I left.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.
You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one.
You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.
When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.
I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.
It's very important what you say to kids. You have to walk a very fine line between talking about your life and talking about what you've done.
